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2025  two-year drawing
            bad paintings
            wrath of god
            homesick blues #3
            (the high five proj.)
            ain’t-merica
            sauce-merica

2024  double-double
            made with love
            with teeth
            “perfect” “people”
            thank you, come again!
            love minus lingo
            in honor of eric cartman
            lofano / marino
            the bob dylan project
            good year, bad year
            from rags to riches...
            get yourself a lawyer...
            hungry man...
            anthem            
            johanna’s not here
            home series
            pure evil

2023  meanwhile, at
            the antecedent of
            impending doom
            white light / white heat
            liquid ecstasy
            for wile e.
            family dinner
            wild, west

2022  made in china
            hail to the king
            tea for masochists

2021   american pie
            not your country

2020  the saint, the villain,
            and the antihero
            stolen bike                   

2019   she was trying...
            american reformation

American Reformation, 2018 - 2019 MATERIALS
NOTES, PHOTOGRAPHS,
MAPS & CORKBOARD

PERFORMANCE
NOVEMBER 2ND, 2018 - FEBRUARY 14TH, 2019
Planning for the performance started on the 29th of October in 2018. The process involved several one-on-one sessions with selected people from different states with different vocations and different political views. The sessions involved just me and the other person talking for 1 or 2 hours in an isolated space about the pros and cons of every American state and which of them were or weren’t important. Notes were continuously written during dialogue, and once the sessions were over, I immediately marked and edited maps to match the state conclusions we reached in conversation. 

The piece was performed for four months, and yielded over a dozen different versions of a “better” USA.

The data was presented on a corkboard.